3. I think the artist I’m most excited to meet at Stumptown isn’t actually visiting in any official capacity: The great Kate Beaton -- who does hilarious autobiographical and history-themed comics at KateBeaton.com -- is apparently flying down from Canada to check out the show. On her LiveJournal (beatonna.livejournal.com), she offers this helpful drawing so we can spot her in the Stumptown crowd:

3. Also, if you get a chance to meet “Perry Bible Fellowship” cartoonist (and Stumptown special guest) Nicholas Gurewitch, be sure to ask him why he retired his smash-hit comic strip, which ran until recently in the Portland Mercury. I’m sure he isn’t going to be remotely sick of that question by the end of the weekend.

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